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Ocarina-EMC vs. NetApp: No Contest

Ocarina-EMC vs. NetApp: No Contest

by Carter George on October 6, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Uncategorized, capacity optimization

Great news–Ocarina has announced that its solution for EMC Celerra is available immediately, offering its advanced, content-aware dedupe and compression to EMC NAS customers. While Ocarina already had a solution for EMC Celerra, this announcement means that has been admitted to the EMC Velocity Technology and ISV Program. A major step forward. EMC has other [...]

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Where’s The Growth? Storage!

Where’s The Growth? Storage!

by Sunshine on September 27, 2009 in Storage, cloud

Friday’s CNBC segment is worth a watch if you’re wondering where the greatest growth will be over the next decade in the technology sector. “Everything that we are using now–videos on YouTube. Everything we’re doing on our phone. On and on. It’s all about storage and putting stuff on the net,” opines Roger Nusbaum of [...]

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VMWorld Wraps Up – EMC, Stealth Storage, and More

by Sunshine on September 3, 2009 in Storage, cloud

This year’s VMWorld ended with a bang–as rock legend Foreigner played for a crowd of 10,000 virtualization fanatics at the Yerba Buena Center in S.F. This really was one heck of a jampacked and exciting event. It is clear that this is becoming one of the key shows for the virtualization and storage markets. There [...]

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VMWorld Turnout – A Sign of Recovery?

by Sunshine on September 2, 2009 in Uncategorized

VMWorld is in full swing in San Francisco this week, and attendance has gone far beyond all predictions. I’ve heard a number of estimates, ranging from 12,000-15,000. In any case, the attendance has blown away their original prediction of 8,000-10,000. Seems there were a lot of last-minute registrees. The downside of this is that the [...]

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Get Ready for Dedupe 2.0

by Carter George on August 27, 2009 in Analyst, Featured, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

Data deduplication has become a very hot topic these days, especially in light of EMC’s recent and very high profile acquisition of Data Domain. This week, analyst George Crump of Storage Switzerland made some predictions as to where this technology is heading. His post, The Foundation of DeDupe’s Next Era, asserts that it will require [...]

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Storage Blogging–The Good, The Bad and the Goofy

Storage Blogging–The Good, The Bad and the Goofy

by Sunshine on August 24, 2009 in Blogroll

We’re just one week away from VMWorld, to be held here in San Francisco Aug. 31-Sept. 3 and the storage blogo-tweet-osphere is lighting up like a Christmas tree. This blogger will be there with her trusty iPhone, ready to send out tweets on every imaginable topic, rumor, random thought, and food item she encounters. We’re [...]

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The Dedupe Race

The Dedupe Race

by Sunshine on August 14, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

The storage press has sniffed out a good story recently. Today, Beth Pariseau has a piece up on her Storage Soup blog that hones in on the drama surrounding the technology du jour–deduplication. The post, “HP to EMC/Data Domain: Bring it On” has a headline that’s reminiscent of the sort of fighting words we heard [...]

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The Talk of the Town

The Talk of the Town

by Sunshine on August 11, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

As I mentioned in a blog post yesterday, the media is beginning to swoop down and take note of yesterday’s announcement that HP is now an official reseller of Ocarina. It’s pretty darn big news. Here are some of the better articles that have appeared. I’ll add more as they come in, so keep rechecking [...]

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Dedupe Grows Up

by Sunshine on July 29, 2009 in Analyst, Ocarina, Storage, capacity optimization

George Crump has a piece in Byte and Switch today that poses an important question: “Can we get to a single point of deduplication?” This is a question that we have taken up in one form or another in some of our recent posts, such as this one and this one. In the article, Crump [...]

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EMC Dedupe – Beyond Data Domain

by Mike Davis on July 27, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

With all the talk about the Data Domain acquisition, there less attention paid to EMC’s native de-dupe features in Celerra, not to mention its other related partnerships, such as with Ocarina for optimization of vertical applications. Last week I had the privilege of attending a webinar, “Surviving the Data Explosion through Data Reduction” with John [...]

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